It didn't, but Embrapa did receive enough money to turn itself into the world's leading tropical-research institution.
Tropical-storm force winds extended 175 miles out from the center and should reach the U.S. coast by Sunday night.
Designed for the adventurous photographer looking to take spectacular photos, the rugged PowerShot D20 camera is ideally suited for the backpacker, snowboarder or tropical-traveler.
Seery, an American expat who has spent 30 years in Indonesia, crafted the tropical-hardwood vessel herself, supervising a small army of Sulawesi boat builders.
But what really separates Qian Hu from the many mom-and-pop businesses of the tropical-fish-farming industry is the attention paid to safely shipping such a fragile creature to customers overseas.
Gustav lost strength in the Hispaniola strike, falling back to tropical-storm status, but the hurricane center predicted that Gustav would regain strength, cross Jamaica and become a hurricane again Friday.
Pulitzer's tropical-print dresses became a sensation in the 1960s when then-first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who attended boarding school with Ms. Pulitzer, wore one of the sleeveless shifts in a Life magazine photo spread.
Countries with tropical-rainforest reserves should follow this pattern.
By Saturday night, tropical-storm-force winds, at 39 mph or stronger, could be felt up to 140 miles for the storm's center about 260 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and 435 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.
According to the World Health Organisation, dengue is now endemic in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries around the world, affecting some 50m people a year, mostly in urban or semi-urban areas.
Dengue fever, a viral infection endemic to tropical and sub-tropical climates, is characterized by high fever, body aches and intense headache.
Recurrent loss of life and property is caused by storm surges and extreme waves associated with severe tropical and extra-tropical cyclones.
Dengue fever is common in tropical and sub-tropical countries.
And the price of one of its main products--palm oil, widely used for cooking in tropical Africa--also went haywire.
Its hurricane-force winds extended out 45 miles (75 kilometers) and tropical storm-force winds extended 140 miles (220 kilometers) from its center into south Florida.
New Zealand -- where it's summer in December -- serves up nighttime fishing, sub-tropical beaches, and award-winning wines.
Think of multinational corporations clear-cutting tropical forests, home-grown movies being squeezed out by Hollywood blockbusters, and the Asian Financial Crisis.
Of course, hurricane season starts June 1st and we still have a tropical depression -- the second named storm of the season.
We made the journey in three 4x4 Unicef vehicles bumping along the red dirt roads through the lush green tropical landscape - trees packed with bananas, oranges and lemons.
Glen De'ath from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and colleagues determined that tropical cyclones - 34 in total since 1985 - were responsible for 48% of the damage, while outbreaks of the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish accounted for 42%.
And farmers and fishermen concede that the only way to get that much rain quickly -- from a tropical storm or hurricane -- would cause more damage than the worst dry spell ever in one the wettest places on Earth.
The stretch of Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle already has been hit with three tropical systems this year -- Hurricane Dennis and tropical storms Arlene and Cindy.
In places like the Philippine island of Boracay, the transformation is well under way, so I head first to Bacuit Bay, to check out a diminishing rarity: a self-proclaimed tropical paradise that contains no go-kart tracks or daiquiri stands or much of anything but wild animals, water and sand.
Even more than the rest of impoverished Georgia, sub-tropical Ajaria ought to be prosperous.
It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
The Tarawera Trail, which begins at the Buried Village, winds its way through scrub before a green canopy of sub-tropical ferns thickens overhead.
Plastic floating in the five sub-tropical gyres of the world, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are two petroleum disasters.
That combination keeps the local area at a consistent tropical green year-round.
Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon continues to conflate post-tropical cyclone Sandy with global warming.
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